Solar farms can be havens for rare plants. Just ask the threecorner milkvetch. The ostensibly barren Mojave Desert is in fact teeming with plants and animals, including a rare species known as the ...

Coming across a snow-white sprout in a tray of bright green seedlings is a surprise because it looks like it belongs in a different world. While most people think of albinism as something that only ...

It was 2006 and Ismail Ebrahim, a botanist with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), was worried. While surveying one of the last remaining patches of renosterveld shrubland in ...

Rare houseplants leave specialty greenhouses and return to everyday American homes as indoor gardening draws stronger interest. Buyers now treat these uncommon finds as collectible pieces that ...

Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...

LIVE IN THE ELEMENTS TONIGHT. RACHEL HERE AT HEATHCOTE BOTANICAL GARDENS. THEY ARE TAKING DRASTIC BUT NECESSARY MEASURES TO PROTECT THEIR RARE BONSAI COLLECTION. YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME THERE ARE ...

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...